later, the rear hatch of the plane lowered to a platform for the agents.
“You ready for this Kodi?” Kirby asked, grinning from ear to ear. Kodi nodded, grinning back at his teammate.
“Always ready… Let’s do this!” Kodi replied.
“Sixty seconds to drop-off… Stand by to- Oh, shit!” the captain said and then the plane shook violently, nearly throwing the two agents off their feet. Another violent shudder of the plane sent them down, both dogs struggling to get up.
“What the Hell’s going on?!” Kirby asked into the intercom, eyes narrowed as the plane continued to shake back and forth.
“We’re being shot at! Anti-aircraft turrets!” the captain said, “We’re gonna have to- Damn! They’ve hit our right engine!” As soon as the captain said that, the plane began to list to the right, sending Kodi and Kirby crashing into the right wall of the plane.
“Mayday! Mayday! Aircraft O-870 has been hit! Repeat, we’ve been hit! We’re going down!” the captain said, forgetting to turn off the intercom system. Kodi and Kirby exchanged worried looks before Kodi looked to the open back of the plane.
“C’mon, we’ve gotta jump now!” Kodi said, both agents getting to their feet and running to the back of the plane. The desert was far below them and the compound wasn’t even in sight. “On three… One…”
“Three!” Kirby shouted and grabbed Kodi’s arm, jumping out while taking his teammate with him. A couple seconds later, the plane was hit again and burst into flame, exploding into a giant fireball before completely exploding into thousands of pieces. The two agents watched as their transport was obliterated as they fell down and down and down toward the desert sands below.
Back in Washington D.C., Balto sat staring at the giant monitor, a blank expression on his face. Colonel McIntyre sat down beside Balto and patted his friend on the back. He sighed softly and gave the wolfdog a soft, empathetic look.
“Don’t worry about your son, Balto… He’s a very capable agent… He completed all of his testing with flying colors and he did learn from the best of the business…” McIntyre said with a slight smile, “I’m sure he’ll be fine… Trust in him…”
“I do, Colonel… It’s just… I would’ve felt so much better if I had gone instead of him…” Balto said softly. Colonel McIntyre gave him a very confused look.
“Balto, I had originally offered this mission to you, but you turned it down immediately and gave it to Kodi…” he explained to the wolfdog, “Don’t you remember? If you would’ve felt better if you had gone, then why didn’t you go?”
“Because if I had gone, Kodi would have died anyway…” Balto answered, getting an even more confused look from Colonel McIntyre.
A sudden series of beeps was heard from the monitor. Balto and Colonel McIntyre quickly looked to it to find out what was going on. The plane had a mile to go before it reached its destination, but the homing signal on it was gone; no longer on the map, and Kodi’s and Kirby’s heart-rate was going up.
“What’s going on?” Colonel McIntyre asked, “The plane’s gone, but the agents’ vitals are still online… What’s happening?”
“I’ll tell you what’s going on…” Balto said, leaning forward and resting his head on his hands, “The plane’s been destroyed by those anti-aircraft turrets… The pilots are dead… However, Kodi and Kirby jumped in time… They’re still alive, but they’re falling 30,000 feet down to the ground…”
Kodi hit the ground with a soft thud. He ran forward a few steps to avoid his parachute falling on top of him. Quickly removing his parachute’s harness, he slipped out of it and pulled out his silenced Beretta, sweeping the desert for any enemies. A few meters away, Kirby touched down and removed his parachute, drawing his firearm as well. Kodi quickly ran up beside him and checked his SOAW. They were close to a mile away from the compound, which was to the east of them.
“We need to head east… It’s right over there…” Kodi said, pointing to the buildings off in the distance.
“Right…” Kirby said, looking to Kodi, “But we’d better be careful… We don’t know if anyone saw us come down or if there’s any guards out here…” Kodi nodded and the two set off, their black stealth suits helping to mask their approach in the night’s dark shadows.
The desert sands didn’t hinder them much. In fact, Kodi barely noticed a difference as he ran across it. Is this what it would be like for me if I had just signed up with the army instead of the agency? he asked himself in thought as they carried on running. After twenty minutes or so, the two teammates finally reached the steel mesh fence surrounding the compound. Kodi looked at the various sized buildings inside the fence, wondering just where Niju would be. He turned his radio on and Kirby did the same as he began to cut a hole in the fence.
“This is Agent Kodi... Can anybody hear me? Over…” Kodi said into his radio, waiting to hear a response. Balto’s ears shot up when he heard his son’s voice echo through the Operations Room from the speakers around the room. Frantically, Balto snatched up his headset and put it on.
“Agent Kodi? This is Balto… Where are you son?” Balto asked, looking to the map, “Press the red button on your SOAW…” Kodi did as he was told and a red dot appeared on the map in the Operations Room. “Ok Kodi, you’re at the outskirts of the compound… How are you getting in?”
“Kirby’s cutting a hole underneath the fence…” Kodi replied, looking to the large Malamute as he cut through the wire mesh, “Dad, can you tell me how many buildings there are here?”
“There are four buildings in there, Kodi… And from what we can see, all of them have large heat signatures coming from them… We can’t tell you which has the missiles, since it looks like every building is full of enemy soldiers…” Balto explained, then sighed softly, “Kodi, please be careful… These dogs are ruthless and won’t hesitate to shoot you, so you have to do the same… Kodi, if you see an enemy, don’t think, just shoot… ok?” There was a long pause before Kodi finally said,
“Ok Dad… I’ve got it… We’re in now, I’ll keep my radio on, but I might not be able to reply… Agent Kodi, out…”
Kodi let his hand fall from the radio clipped to his chest down to his side. He gripped his handgun tighter, ready to do whatever necessary to complete the mission. Kirby finished cutting a hole in the bottom of the fence and replaced his wire cutters into his belt, crawling underneath it. Kodi followed his teammate and both dove behind a stack of metal crates, looking out at the many soldiers patrolling around. Spotlights on top of the buildings were manned and sweeping the area.
“Damn… Security’s pretty tight around here…” Kirby said in a whisper.
“Well that’s what happens when an American transport plane gets shot down right above your head…” Kodi whispered back, both agents chuckling slightly, “Looks like there’s a door into that tall building over there…” Kodi pointed to the tallest of the four buildings, a lone door on the side of it.
“Yeah, I see it…” Kirby said, nodding slowly, “Alright… Let’s go!” With that, the two agents dashed behind another stack of crates, gradually making their way across the sand toward the structure.
Niju sat at a desk he’d taken for himself, looking over various files and reports. The only light in the room was the one above his head, illuminating little other than the desk and himself. He sighed softly, pushing a few files off to the side and holding up a silvery chain with a small metal rectangle at the bottom of it. He slowly traced his fingers across the lines of text on the rectangle. It read:
Name: Balto Harrand
Age: 47
Blood Type: O+
D.O.B.: 03/15/79
The door to his office opened up and a Border Collie walked in, dressed in a high-ranking military uniform. Niju quickly placed Balto’s dog-tags back in his pocket and folded his hands across his desk.
“Lieutenant Drawn, good to see you…” Niju said, giving the Collie a slight smile, “Is there something I can do for you?”
“The reports you requested are back… It took me twenty days, but I finally found out all I could on that guy for you…” Drawn said, handing Niju a folder filled with papers and a few photographs, “And also, the meeting for the dealing of those missiles is still on for 9 PM tomorrow night…”
“Perfect… Everything’s going smoothly then?” Niju asked, taking the folder from the dog and giving him a pleased look, “No problems of any kind?”
“Well, there was an American transport aircraft that tried to fly over us about half an hour ago… We presumed it was going to drop troops inside the base to stop us…” Drawn began, then smiled cruelly, “But it was shot down a mile from the establishments… We have nothing to worry about…”
“Excellent work, Lieutenant… You’re dismissed…” Niju said and waited for his lieutenant to walk out before opening the folder and spreading the documents out on the desk, reading them intently, “Yes… This is perfect…” Niju then pressed the button on the short-wave radio on his desk. “Lieutenant, can you hear me?”
“Yes sir… Loud and clear…” came the voice of Drawn, “I’m going to go ahead and guess that there is something I can do for you after all?”
“Yes there is, Lieutenant Drawn…” Niju said, “I need you to gather up my Spec-Ops soldiers and get them ready to leave ASAP… I have a mission for them…” Niju leaned back in his chair, eyes still locked on the documents before him. He pulled the dog-tags out of his pocket again and held them up before him, watching them as they swayed back and forth in
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